Archive - Our Long Walk

An AI-written short story to commemorate Freedom Day

Apr 28 •

Monetary Architecture is alluring but dangerous

Apr 25 •

What did Mandela leave behind?

EPISODE 11: Jonathan and I speak to Princeton historian Jacob Dlamini about Mandela, memory and the complexities of life under apartheid

Apr 22 •

46:37

The age of orality

How AI will transform the way we communicate

Apr 21 •

Engineering nation

How engineers built an industrial South Africa – and why they matter again today

Apr 18 •

To test transformation

My submission on South Africa's Draft Transformation Fund Concept Document

Apr 14 •

How a 19th-century Cape coffee boom reveals the hidden consequences of Trump’s new tariff war

Apr 11 •

Day Zero lessons

The hidden trade-offs between efficiency and equity

Apr 7 •

An autumn of autarky

The Trump tariffs and how South Africa should respond to it

Apr 4 •

Can war be creative?

EPISODE 10: Jonathan and I speak to Oxford University historian Richard Reid about war, state formation and the revolutions shaping Africa before the…

Apr 1 •

48:20

March 2025

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